Car Mags?
08-19-2003, 02:45 PM
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I currently subscribe to Road and Track, Car and Driver and Sport Compact Car which are my personal favorites. I don't care for Motortrend too much. They have weird taste. I mean come on, some of their recent Car of the Year choices include the Chevy Malibu and the Ford Thunderbird. I don't get it.
08-19-2003, 05:12 PM
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Tell us what you like about the ones you already subscribe to and recommendations may make more sense. But anyway...
I get C&D, R&T and Automobile. Get 'em all, they are so cheap it isn't an issue (oops, horrid pun). But even so, they are so repititiously redundant, I might drop Automobile. C&D is more obnoxious, and thus entertaining, than R&T. But I like having the balance of both. Either I'm jaded or both have been going downhill in the review dept.
MT I had one year and frankly, can't stand. Just strikes me as tabloid.
Others:
Autoweek to be on top of it.
GRM for the racer/tuner. I've heard great things about it, but haven't gotten into it (yet).
Sport Compact Car for the ric**, oops better not say that.
The UK mags like Evo and Car. Entertaining, opinionated (and very UK biased), but expensive. Read them at Barnes & Noble.
Online I still check out Edmunds every other day. But for the last couple of years it takes a dozen clicks to get to the info I'm looking for (guess advertising revenue is good). I used to like Consumer Guide reviews (their Annual) a lot more than I do now. But their website gives you a lot of info quickly in one click.
I get C&D, R&T and Automobile. Get 'em all, they are so cheap it isn't an issue (oops, horrid pun). But even so, they are so repititiously redundant, I might drop Automobile. C&D is more obnoxious, and thus entertaining, than R&T. But I like having the balance of both. Either I'm jaded or both have been going downhill in the review dept.
MT I had one year and frankly, can't stand. Just strikes me as tabloid.
Others:
Autoweek to be on top of it.
GRM for the racer/tuner. I've heard great things about it, but haven't gotten into it (yet).
Sport Compact Car for the ric**, oops better not say that.
The UK mags like Evo and Car. Entertaining, opinionated (and very UK biased), but expensive. Read them at Barnes & Noble.
Online I still check out Edmunds every other day. But for the last couple of years it takes a dozen clicks to get to the info I'm looking for (guess advertising revenue is good). I used to like Consumer Guide reviews (their Annual) a lot more than I do now. But their website gives you a lot of info quickly in one click.
08-21-2003, 09:13 PM
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I usually only buy anything that has the S2000 in it, but recently I have been buying because there are some pretty cool cars coming out and I like to see what they are about.
Oh yeah, I am not sure if anyone has posted this already because I have not been on in awhile, but has anyone gotten the Sept. issue of Modified Mag, with Ben Schaffer's S2k in it. That car is so sweet. Also I thought that was cool how he gave a special thanks to all of us at S2Ki.
Oh yeah, I am not sure if anyone has posted this already because I have not been on in awhile, but has anyone gotten the Sept. issue of Modified Mag, with Ben Schaffer's S2k in it. That car is so sweet. Also I thought that was cool how he gave a special thanks to all of us at S2Ki.
08-23-2003, 12:43 PM
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Car and Driver, Road and Track are the only decent American mags, in my opinion. Automobile has practically no content, and Motor Trend is like a bunch of car company ads.
Personally, I like the British mags the best (CAR, Autocar), they actually have opinions and tell you a car sucks when it sucks. None of the different degrees of goodness you get from the American mags who are all afraid of losing their ad revenue.
Personally, I like the British mags the best (CAR, Autocar), they actually have opinions and tell you a car sucks when it sucks. None of the different degrees of goodness you get from the American mags who are all afraid of losing their ad revenue.
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